HHS OCR breach portal (HIPAA breaches affecting 500 or more individuals) Primary notice
Posted on the HHS Office for Civil Rights breach portal with a submission date of July 21, 2022.
- Organization as reported
- Patriot Growth Insurance Services, LLC, PA
- Entity type as reported
- Business Associate
- Category as reported
Hacking/IT Incident
- Location of information as reported
- Submission date
- July 21, 2022
- Observed by BreachRecords
- 2026-10-18 16:15 UTC (revision 11293, row:2432)
- Archived copy
- Held in the private archive (provenance)
Advantage Benefit Solutions, a division of Patriot Growth Insurance Services, the covered entity (CE), reported that an employee was the subject of an email phishing scheme that compromised the protected health information (PHI) of 4,614 individuals. The PHI involved included names, addresses, birthdates, Social Security numbers, and financial information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In its mitigation efforts, the CE implemented additional technical and security safeguards. Staff were retrained on email security.